Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure
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A most remarkable thread @Matt ! A real pleasure to travel alongside your family - a really looked forward to updates every day in order to escape the dreary tedium of non-stop Zoom calls and not traveling anywhere.
Thank you to you and your family for allowing us to virtually accompany you all on this adventure!
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I’m in a bit of a pickle and I’m soliciting some casual advice. Since embarking on our journey I’ve lost about 20 pounds. I attribute this to a combination of an active lifestyle and the almost total removal of unnecessary sugar from my diet. That said, my pants and belts don’t fit well. While I am appreciating the fitness, I’m stuck with the conundrum of not really being in a position to buy new pants and I don’t really want to try to trade the ones I’ve become attached to. Anyone run into an issue like this?
The moral here is that’s if you’re looking to shed some quarantine weight I highly recommend selling all your shit and driving around with your kids for a year. Apparently it’s that simple.
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I'd gladly send you the 20 pounds I accumulated during Covid. Apparently, being a boredom snacker working from home with easy access to junk food and entirely eliminating exercise causes this.
I suppose if you have the opportunity, you could give that a shot.
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Well, now that's just cruel. What are you supposed to eat, fruit!?!
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This is everything for me. Thank you @Matt and fam. I’ve been staring at those mountains for more than a decade and have never done this…
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Any idea about the reason for the name, Sandia? In spanish it means watermelon…wondering if there is any link.
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New washer and dryer showed up yesterday. Very excited to wash 3 deserts worth of dust out of my jeans. I may run a test pair through the dryer to see if it helps with my new post-dad bod fit. In 10 years I’ve never dried any of my IH gear so I’m waffling a bit. Feel free to talk me down off of or push me over the ledge.
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My new washer has no agitator so I’m pumped. Sadly we did not spring for the model that has a Premium Denim setting!?!?
We’ve been getting our new resident logistics together for the past week. So far our kids are getting free breakfast and lunch at school and we’re on Medicaid because we haven’t worked for a year. Excuse me while I put on my $400 pair of jeans so I can sit on my new couch and watch my robot vacuum clean while I watch my new QLED 4K tv.
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Just do it, Matt! I tumble dry all my denim. May cause a little shrinkage, but no detrimental effects. Spin cycle in the washer is what can be tricky. But with inside-out pre-submerged(wet) denim, even that is usually nbd.
This is the way.
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The Tin Palace and I will be leaving for her new home in Chicago tomorrow. Then it’s on to Maryland to see family and retrieve belongings. I’ll try to post some over the next few days. Mixed feelings. Got my first shot today and my new drivers license so it’s all settling in. I’ll miss this thread. It’s been fun.
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